text
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From Latin textus, past participle of texo (“‘to weave’”)
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text (countable and uncountable; plural texts)
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).
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a written passage
a book, tome or other set of writings
a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
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to text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted)
- To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
- Just text me when you get here.
- (intransitive) To be occupied for a duration with the act of sending and receiving text messages.
- Have you been texting all afternoon?
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From Persian
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text m.
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| Inflection for text | Singular | Plural | ||
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| common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Base form | text | texten | texter | texterna |
| Possessive form | texts | textens | texters | texternas |
text c.